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By Women Possessed

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by Arthur Gelb


  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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  Basso, Hamilton. “The Tragic Sense,” The New Yorker, February 28, 1948; March 6, 1948; March 13, 1948.

  Bogard, Travis. Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O’Neill. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

  ———, editor. Eugene O’Neill: Complete Plays (3 Volumes: 1913–1920; 1920–1931; 1932–1943). New York: The Library of America, 1988.

  ———, editor. The Unknown O’Neill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

  Bogard, Travis, and Jackson R. Bryer, editors. Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

  Boulton, Agnes. Part of a Long Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

  Bowen, Croswell (with Shane O’Neill). The Curse of the Misbegotten. New York, Toronto, and London: McGraw-Hill, 1959.

  Brustein, Robert. The Theater of Revolt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.

  Bryant, Louise. Christmas in Petrograd. Unpublished memoir (circa 1936), Granville Hicks collection, Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections.

  Bryer, Jackson, editor. The Theater We Worked For: Letters of Eugene O’Neill to Kenneth Macgowan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.

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  Clark, Barrett H. Eugene O’Neill: The Man and His Plays. New York: Robert McBride, 1929; New York: Dover Publications, 1947 (revised).

  Commins, Dorothy, editor. “Love and Admiration and Respect”: The O’Neill-Commins Correspondence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986.

  Crichton, Kyle. Total Recoil. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.

  Deutsch, Helen, and Stella Hanau. The Provincetown: A Story of the Theater. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.

  Dowling, Robert M. Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2014.

  Engel, Edwin. The Haunted Heroes of Eugene O’Neill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.

  Estrin, Mark W., editor. Conversations with Eugene O’Neill. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

  Falk, Doris. Eugene O’Neill and the Tragic Tension. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1958.

  Floyd, Virginia. Eugene O’Neill: A World View. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1979.

  ———. Eugene O’Neill at Work, annotated & edited. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981.

  Gallup, Donald, editor. Eugene O’Neill Poems, 1912–1944. New Haven, CT/New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980.

  ———, editor. Eugene O’Neill Work Diary 1924–1943. New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1981.

  ———. What Mad Pursuits! Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1998.

  Gelb, Arthur and Barbara. Life with Monte Cristo. New York/London: Applause, 2000.

  ———. O’Neill. New York: Harper & Bros., 1962; New York: Harper & Row, 1973 (revised).

  Gelb, Barbara. So Short a Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973.

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  Hicks, Granville. John Reed. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

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  ———. Unpublished manuscript. Fales Library, New York University, and revised unpublished manuscript. Gelb collection.

  King, William Davis, editor. “A Wind Is Rising”: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.

  Kinne, Wisner Payne. George Pierce Baker and the American Theater. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954.

  Krutch, Joseph Wood. The American Stage Since 1918. New York: George Braziller, 1957.

  ———. Introduction, Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill. New York: Modern Library, 1954.

  Langner, Lawrence. The Magic Curtain. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951.

  Lockridge, Richard. Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth 1833–1893. New York/London: Century, 1932.

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  McCandless, Marion. Family Portraits. Notre Dame, IN: Saint Mary’s College, 1952.

  Moody, Richard. Edwin Forrest, First Star of the American Stage. New York: Knopf, 1960.

  Nathan, George Jean. As Ever, Gene: The Letters of Eugene O’Neill to George Jean Nathan. Edited by Nancy L. Roberts and Arthur W. Roberts. London/Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987.

  ———. The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.

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  O’Neill, Eugene. Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill. Edited by Donald Gallup. Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, 500 copies. Privately printed 1960.

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  Quinn, Arthur Hobson. A History of the American Drama from the Civil War to the Present Day. New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1927.

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  Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. Fire Under the Andes. London, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

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  Sheaffer, Louis. O’Neill, Son and Artist. Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown, 1973.

  ———. O’Neill, Son and Playwright. Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown, 1968.

  Skinner, Richard Dana. A Poet’s Quest. New York: Russell & Russell Inc., 1964.

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  KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS IN ENDNOTES

  A/BG

  Arthur (AG)
and Barbara (BG) Gelb

  AB

  Agnes Boulton O’Neill

  AMcG

  Arthur McGinley

  BA

  Brooks Atkinson

  BB

  Barbara Burton

  BC

  Bennett Cerf

  BDC

  Ben De Casseres

  Beinecke

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Collection of American Literature, Yale University

  CM

  Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

  CVV

  Carl Van Vechten

  DD

  Dorothy Day

  DG

  Dr. Donald C. Gallup

  EG

  Eben Given

  EK

  Edward Keefe

  EO

  Eugene O’Neill

  ESS

  Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

  Fales

  Fales Library, New York University

  FBM

  Frederic B. Mayo

  FM

  Fania Marinoff

  GCC

  George Cram (“Jig”) Cook

  GJN

  George Jean Nathan

  GRC

  Dr. Gilbert R. Cherrick

  HH

  Hutchins Hapgood

  HW

  Harry Weinberger

  IC

  Ilka Chase

  JC

  Jane Caldwell

  JJM

  James Joseph (Slim) Martin

  JL

  James Light

  JMcC

  Joseph McCarthy

  JQ

  José Quintero

  JR

  Jane Rubin

  JWK

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  KA

  Kaye Albertoni

  KJP

  Kathleen Jenkins Pitt-Smith

  KM

  Kenneth Macgowan

  LB

  Louise Bryant

  LDJIN

  Long Day’s Journey Into Night

  LG

  Lillian Gish

  LK

  Louis Kantor

  LL

  Lawrence Langner

  LS

  Louis Sheaffer

  LWMC

  Life with Monte Cristo

  MBE

  Mourning Becomes Electra

  MHV

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  NM

  Nickolas Muray

  NW

  Norman Winston

  NYT

  The New York Times

  PM

  Philip Moeller

  PS

  Philip Sheridan

  RB

  Ralph Barton

  RC

  Russel Crouse

  RL

  Ruth Lander

  RR

  Robert Rockmore

  SB

  Stella Ballantine

  SC

  Saxe Commins

  SD

  O’Neill’s Scribbling Diary

  SG

  Susan Glaspell

  SL

  Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, Yale University Press, 1988

  SNB

  S. N. Behrman

  SO

  Sheila O’Neill

  SP

  Seymour (“Sy”) Peck

  SW

  Sophus Winther

  SWL

  Sherlee Weingarten Lantz

  TC

  Terry Carlin

  “TTWWF”

  The Theater We Worked For

  WD

  O’Neill’s Work Diary

  “Wind”

  “A Wind Is Rising”: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006

  ENDNOTES

  PART I: UPHEAVAL

  CHAPTER ONE

  “Oh very much so!” EO to KM, Thursday (Dec. 1926), Yale, SL.

  warmly greeted by friends and stared at by strangers. A/BG interviews with JL, KM, LL, & Theresa Helburn.

  a bequest from a childless aunt who raised her. Following her divorce from Barton, the American Magazine (4/14/27) published a gossipy item about Carlotta’s “imminent marriage” to Speyer, and Carlotta has written to an intimate friend, dismissing the report: “He is a darling—the kindest—most unselfish, most charitable man I have ever met—and clever—and has a keen sense of humor—and above all—gentle—I adore him—but no marriage! Ours is a beautiful & most thoroughly satisfying friendship.” Carlotta adds that “of course,” the fact that he is a millionaire and she is an “ex-actress” has fueled the gossip about them “by damned fool society reporters.” (Carlotta in later life told friends Speyer did propose marriage, but that she had already determined to marry O’Neill.)

  Her accessories, Chase notes, are “of the finest material, her shoes made to order of special leathers at great cost” and sometimes sewn with jewels. IC, Past Imperfect by IC (Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1942); & A/BG interview with IC.

  “there is a lot of you in the woman, I think . . . and yet, wholly unlike you.” letter, from EO to CM, 3/4/27, Yale, SL.

  “I am interested only in the relation between man and God.” EO in conversation with JWK, Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill (Modern Library, New York, 1932).

  at the Wentworth Hotel on Forty-sixth Street near Broadway. The Wentworth was renamed Hotel at Times Square in 2008.

  sworn to withhold the photos until after their marriage. A/BG interviews with CM.

  wishing it were over, missing her, fighting his anxiety and guilt. Ibid.
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  “a blow-by-blow account” of how the play is being received. A/BG interviews with LL & his autobiography, The Magic Curtain (E. P. Dutton & Company Inc., New York, 1951).

  “I’ve never forgotten it.” A/BG interview and correspondence with Clarke’s sister, Frances Cardenas.

  “O’Neill never knew about this sly business of mine.” A/BG interviews with Fontanne, Langner, SNB & The Magic Curtain.

  “The mechanics of acting stop me from seeing the play.” Flora Merrill, 7/19/25.

  “They’d be able to express the meaning without them.” The Magic Curtain.

  “From what I hear they are both pretty dull in the old bean—but that hardly astonishes me.” letter, EO to AB, 12/2/1927, Harvard, SL.

  hardly a statement to placate the Shuberts. New York American Magazine, 2/25/28.

  “It was a funny scene.” EO to KM, 9/21/28, The Theatre We Worked For (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1982).

  CHAPTER TWO

  two fabled courtesans, one mythological, the other seventeenth-century French. “Five O’Clock Friday Morning,” 5/19/22, Yale.

  Among the guests—always formally attired— A/BG interview with NM.

  “Ralph was not the first man who had made her unhappy.” Past Imperfect.

  debate, for three hours, whether they will “live together any more.” Entry in CVV “Daybook,” 9/29/25, NY Public Library.

 

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